My Apple Card is expiring this summer, and the replacement physical card arrived in the mail today. Activating was super-duper easy—just bring it in close proximity to your iPhone and tap a button or two on screen. Done.
But what do I do with the old card? It's titanium so it's not easily destroyed.
I've had metal Amex cards since 2010 or so. When Amex sends a replacement card, they include a return envelope custom made for mailing them your expired card for recycling.
@gruber I got the return envelope right along with the card. It was puzzling why the package looked like a Russian Doll, so I looked for instructions and they were there and quite clear
@daringfireball There is a rule in comedy which says the audience will laugh at anything, but not when something on stage breaks. I cringed all through it, and especially when the camera lenses shattered and the escaping m&m .. ruptured. This was a failure of comedy, regardless of whatever reasons people are coming up with post hoc. Uncool, maan.
So, I was reading HG Wells and I noticed something I hadn't thought about. He writes in a style that's very weird, and but for the Victorian/Edwardian language might even be considered experimental now? Like, in The War in the Air, it regularly alternates between goofy comedic scenes and scenes of horror and violence. And in between THAT there are digressions about economics and engineering technology. (1/n)
@GottaLaff Why do these interviewers keep asking useless leading questions? Just SAY that Noem did not meet Kim Jong as she claimed, then ask “Comment?”
#10Authors5BooksEach - the ones I recommend who may not be known to all my followers:
Iain M. Banks
Heinrich Böll
Friedrich Dürrenmatt
Jenny Erpenbeck
Ursula K. LeGuin
Marge Piercy
Arkady and Boris Strugatsky
Lyudmila Ulitskaya
Christa Wolf
Banana Yoshimoto
@vicgrinberg#10Authors5BooksEach
Agatha Christie
Anne McCaffrey
Catharine Asaro
Colleen McCullough
JK Rowling
Jodi Taylor
Martha Wells
Mary Renault
Seanan McGuire
Ursula LeGuin
Ian, you're wrong. I watched the speech. Eric unpacks the relevant context here. It's a very odd look to be spinning for #Trump like this.
Eric Columbus:
Wise conway thread below about Trump's "bloodbath" remarks. And per @metzgov transcription Trump said the effect on the car industry would be "the least of" the effects of the "bloodbath for the country." This is the opposite of just talking about cars.
@GottaLaff Why people keep falling for the same trick, I don't know. It's like they have no memory of past events. As though their brains are like goldfish drunk on NYT.
I haven’t watched yet, we DVR’d. Now I’m not so sure I want to.
Via Stephen Robinson:
Jon Stewart complaining that 2024 is “two old guys” again is like me complaining that it’s “two white guys” again. It misses the point and minimizes the stakes.
Via Aaron Rupar:
Some of Stewart’s jokes landed but I would argue the message of his monologue is actually the very last thing we need right now unless you want four more years of Trump. It certainly didn’t inspire anyone to vote.
@GottaLaff This is the same Jon Stewart who fumbled the 2010 midterms with a remarkably ill-timed bothsides kumbaya normalizing the teaparty and has still not realized it? As they say, live by the comedian, die by the comedian.
Wheeeee! Ich habe ein Ticket für "Fremd" am Gorki Theater in Berlin ergattert! First time that getting on a waiting list for something actually worked out!
@vicgrinberg I'm giving a talk on 25 years of science with Chandra next week. If you have any illustrations of your nicest Chandra results, I will take 'em!!
@vicgrinberg Absolutely! 👍 Would be delighted to take any illustrations you have. We are collecting stuff for Chandra 25 years talks that people will be giving throughout the year, so it will probably get used multiple times! (with attribution of course)
A grasshopper lands at a random point on a planar lawn of area one. It then jumps once, a fixed distance 𝑑, in a random direction. What shape should the lawn be to maximize the chance that the grasshopper lands on the lawn again?
Surprisingly, the lawn should never be shaped like a disk! Here's what it should look like for various choices of 𝑑. For larger values of 𝑑 it gets even weirder.
@arstechnica OK I have to ask. Why do so many (all?) photos of the Mona Lisa have that green hue cast on the background? I've seen the thing in person, it is blue. It is stunningly blue. If anything it is bluer than what it appears as below.
Seriously, it took me six hours to fill out four reference forms, two of which already had pdf templates from which I could copy and paste. This is not sustainable. FELLOWSHIP COMMITTEES, PLEASE STOP DOING THIS.